These help with drawing lines of any color. I use black. I used these to make Eldrad's glyphs and to draw the cross sections of my harlequins. Great upgrade that did more than I was currently capable of with my brush.

Here are the glyphs in action done with a Micron pen. I had tried to freehand them with a brush four times before...

Wood Trays to hold paints and tools from AC Moore

I use a Sharpie to write each paint's name on the top of the pot. This allows me to stack paint trays atop one another and still have access to all of them easily. These trays were about $5 each and allows me to:

Move and pack them up them easily

Find which paint I am looking for easily

Organize them easily by color

Keep my tools with my paints

Wet Palette (free almost)

Huge upgrade here to the wet palette this year. Where have you been all my life? I made this out of wax/parchment paper, paper towel, and a Tupperware container.

The video that helped me easily make one is below. With this, my paints will stay wet for up to three weeks. All done with things available around my house.

Video link below

Paint Cup

A Christmas splurge. You have to roll in style.

An Assist to Hold Models

I am old, so I have plenty of prescription bottles. These, with some sticky tack on the top is great to hold your hands onto while painting without having to grab your model. A must.....

Thanks for your comment. I really like the mold line remover, I imagine it works as well as the XActo. With two young children in the house, the mold line remover is a little safer if they manage to get a hold of it.

I like my mould line remover a lot better than a hobby blade, personally. I also use a Squadron seam scraper with a little deferent shape. They each have their use and keeping all 3 on hand during a build is a HUGE time saver. The Citadel one has a nice curve, so rounded armor pads, gun barrels, etc. are much easier to do. The seam scraper is ideal for flat panels that are in a little tighter spots since it's smaller than the Citadel one. I really only use the hobby blade for the very tightest spots that I can't fit the other tools into, and to take off the large burrs where the sprue attached. Trying to scrape those off is a pain, so I cut flush and then smooth the 'wound' into the surrounding area.

I recently grabbed the Games Workshop pin vice and it's been fantastic. More expensive than other hobby tools, but I think it was worth it. As far as tools go, I'm looking forward to getting more use out of my airbrush this year, and learning more tricks with it. I also recently got pointed to a company called Widgetco, where you can order corks of all sizes to pin your models into for ease of painting. Size 22 is great for space marines.

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